Bridges - Scotland

Thanks to Musselburgh Area Partnership for hosting a fantastic Musselburgh Communities Day at The Fisherrow Centre this weekend!

Our Project Officer Connie represented Bridges on the day ✨️ She enjoyed speaking to people from the local community about our work and catching up with all the amazing organisations present 🙌

We're proud to be part of such a wonderful community in Musselburgh 🤩

Ebony, one of our young people, just made a lovely chicken curry in her one-to-one session with our Independent Living Support Worker Stevie 😋🍛

Stevie delivers our Homemaker Programme, which is funded by East Lothian Council!

Well done to all our young people on everything they have achieved over the past month 👏👏👏

Here are just some of the highlights from September ⬇

Thank you to our neighbours Daxtra Technologies Ltd for kindly donating a set of office chairs to our office 🤩

They have already been put to good use!

We'd also like to thank ESES Communities for facilitating the donation 🤝

Last week, the young people taking part in the outdoor employability training course collected elder wood and made jewellery and decorations out of it!

Here's one of the young people with a bracelet she made 😀 📿

The outdoor employability training course is deliveree by our Spark Your Future programme in partnership with Newbattle Abbey College 🤝

East Lothian Council East Lothian Works The Scottish Government

📣 We have spaces available on two of our upcoming sector-specific training courses!

🏗 The Build You Up construction course is open to young people 16+ in East Lothian
👶 The childcare course is open to young people 14+ in East Lothian

📨 Message us for more information!

💷 Build You Up is delivered by our Spark Your Future programme, funded by East Lothian Council 's Employability Grants Programme as part of The Scottish Government's No One Left Behind funding. The childcare course is delivered by our Bridges Works prorgramme, funded by East Lothian Council's One Council Partnership Fund.

East Lothian Works

From disengaging from family and school to coming back to school after several years, this Throwback Thursday's quote tells a powerful story about the journey of one of the young people working with Employability Support Worker Sarah from our Bridges Works programme 💜

Bridges Works is funded by East Lothian Council's One Council Partnership Fund!

Last week, Hannah and Nathan from Change Mental Health ran a couple of co-production workshops with our young people 📝

The workshops are part of a new employability pathway Mental Health UK are developing and focused on a range of inter-related areas of mental health and employability. Our young people had the chance to feed back on the workshops to help shape their future development and therefore contribute to making a real difference for other young people 🥰

Thank you to Change Mental Health for offering our young people the opportunity to contribute to shaping this important provision 🤝

Chilling in hammocks ✌️

That's just one of the things our young people in the outdoor employability training course have been up to in the last couple of weeks!

In addition to learning about how to put up the hammocks, they have also:
🌳 Identified trees and plant species using a plant ID sheet
🍯 Made jam
🔥 Learned about fire making

The outdoor employability training course is delivered by our Spark Your Future programme in partnership with Newbattle Abbey College 🤝

East Lothian Council East Lothian Works The Scottish Government

✨Programme Spotlight: Bridges Opportunities✨️

📍Area covered: East Lothian
👥 Age range: 13-25

ℹ️ Support to develop employability and life skills, gain accreditation and move into positive destinations. Offers the opportunity to participate in Bridges' strategic planning, local consultations and youth-led activities. Delivered through one-to-one and group sessions.

❓️ Did you know? Last year, 12 of the young people working with Bridges Opportunities gained a qualification!

💷 Funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation's Youth Fund

❗️Please nore that all our programmes have long waiting lists. 23 young people are currently on the waiting list for accessing Bridges Opportunities.